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Basically, I want to be able to take something that I’d previously made into a component and “uncomponentise” it. Currently, I have to either delete it (not good for version control) or make an instance, detach the instance and then delete component. I just want to be able to turn the component off so that it’s no longer in libraries etc.

Would be great if there was a way to be able to change the sort/order in which auto layout components are shown, without having to detach or redo all the work to edit the components. For example: eg. using a table or list component, and being able to move row 3 to be row 4. Current native experiences forces you to either: Detach the component (not ideal) and resort Redo all the content for both rows 3 + 4 Neither of these are ideal from a system or efficiency perspective.

Some files have a Variable panel with a Collections dropdown menu. Other files do not have the dropdown menu. Does anyone know why this happens? See attached. I am in Figma desktop app for macOS, in Professional Plan.I prefer the dropdown menu, but do not see an option to enable it in my files where it is missing.

Currently, annotations only allow you to select the lowest level layers it can find. Many, many times I just want to document something on a whole group or frame, and it doesn’t look like this is possible, which seems like a huge miss.

Find & Replace text is incredibly helpful, but the functionality can have unhelpful/unintended consequences when updating text across components and instances. Current behavior: Find and replace does not distinguish or prioritize between replacing text in parent components, component instances, or strings not within components. This means that if text is replaced within instances, it treats those strings as overridden, and changes to the text in the parent component will no longer automatically update in those instances. Expected behavior:Find and replace text in components before instances (including instances within other components) and update search results before replacing text in component instances. This allows component instances to have relevant text updated by the parent component when possible and not overwriting text strings within instances that shouldn’t be customized. 

Hey guys,Can you make the billing section more viible? Everytime I have to pay for Figma I forget where the invoicing is, I literally spend 10 mintutes to find the billing section to pay my invoice, when I have to do it manually. Every time.

How about the option to choose which export file type is the default when exporting graphics? (i.e. SVG or PNG rather than JPEG) … this would make our devs REALLY happy! 🤩

I’d like to disable comments while I’m working so the client doesn’t comment on it in real time. And be able to turn it back on when the design is done.

Edit: Moved to Share Feedback ContextMy company heavily uses Figma variables and are looking to build out multiple collections each having a unique set of modes. One example would be around Buttons—two collections would be made, one for states and another for size. There would be many other collections that would need to be created to create a comprehensive design system. Caveat: This use case may be an edge case or unique to me.ProblemThe current variable window is very inflexible:Can’t view your list of collections outside of a dropdown feels clunky Can’t resize the left panel with the list of variables Can’t reorder modes (I may be missing something here on why that is built that way)SuggestionsWould be nice to treat the variables’ left panel like the main pages and layer panels Collections could be treated like pages and would be housed in a resizable section above the variables which would be treated like the layers The same way we interact with the pages and layers panels would b

The dashed lines are so inconsistent with any sort of shape with corners or rounded edges. There needs to be some sort of option to choose Adaptive styling or consistent styling or something like that so that the designer can choose to either have figma style the dashes to fit the shape how it thinks it should look, or consistent dashes and gaps as manually set in the advanced settings. This is very limiting and frustrating. Currently I’m having to go back and forth between illustrator and figma for every single shape to get a proper dashed line. 

Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this When I am tagged in a lot of comments in Figma in a short amount of time or throughout the day, the amount of email notifications I get is overwhelming, but I don’t want to turn them off because I forget to check the specific files for comments if I don’t get an email. It would be great to have an option to get a rollup of all your notifications in one email for the day so that I can check for it at the beginning of the day and take action on that feedback all at once. Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.) Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation (e.g. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?, etc.

It would be amazing and so useful if we could make presentations with AI in Figma Slides. Right now I kind of wing it by pasting from make to slides, but the result is messy and it gets messier when exporting to ppt or pdf. This would be a game changer! 

Searching for plugins has become more common in some scenario than built-in features in figma. It would greatly improve workflow if we could add most used plugins to sidebar or have just 1 click away instead of 3click, writing, click. Multiply it X times per day and it become usability inefficiency.Summary of suggestions:add sidebar of plugins plugins are picked by selecting from favorites plugins are 1-click away sidebar is optional and can be turned off or when empty

Our app has right click options but are limited to one click only with Figma. Would anyone else be interested in having right vs left click options for prototyping?

There is currently no way to give Figma Make files a cover thumbnail. For organizations that use thumbnails to help provide visual structure to their Figma work, this is an essential missing piece. 

Can we have the feature to apply variables to X and Y axes

Hi,I'm working on a Figma Slides project that requires animating text line by line within a single text box, but I've encountered a limitation. Currently, Figma only allows us to animate entire text boxes as single units, regardless of how many lines of text they contain.It would be incredibly useful if we could apply different animations to individual lines of text that are separated by line breaks/returns within the same text box. For example, having line 1 fade in, then line 2 slide in from the right, and line 3 scale up—all within a single text box.This would enable more sophisticated text animations without requiring designers to split text into multiple separate text boxes (which creates maintenance headaches when content changes).Has anyone found a workaround for this? Or could the Figma team consider adding this capability in a future update? Or is it already there and I’ve just missed it?Thanks for your help!

It would be great if Figma allowed users to change their live collaborative cursor into an emoji. When several people are working together without being on a call, this would make it easy to quickly express reactions, like turning your cursor into a 👍 to say “good job” to a product manager or designer. It would add a lightweight, fun, and non-intrusive way to communicate during collaboration.

Would love if you could add the ability to add a delay on button click to trigger an interaction. Often we’ll have a message or an interaction that doesn’t appear until the completion of some API calls or processing in the background. Being able to add a delay on button click would give me the ability to get the feel for what a possible interaction / feature would actually look like in a prototype or wireframe. Feels like a feature you might want on any interaction…software isn’t always fast 😉

Why do variation controls get hidden when I'm in the scale command!!! It's really irritating to have to switch out of it just to change a variation

I think it would be amazing if we could export frames/images right from the Figma mobile app. There could be an export feature similar to desktop version and user could simply choose where they want to save the exported file to.

Quite often, in a complicated flow, it would be useful to get the name of the frame currently displayed in the preview mode.

Right-click as the way to apply a variable (boolean) to the appearance of an element is so difficult to discover I am amazed it’s really organized that way.This offers zero discoverability - there is not even a clue in the tooltip - I had to check for how I’ve made it several weeks ago - I forgot how to get there.Please, why don’t you use the same pattern as for the rest of things (dropdown) or so.

Hi Figma,  I really like the Variables panel but why does’nt it support dots in naming variables? For example: basis.text.font-weight.default is much more clear than naming a variable basis-text-font-weight-default. Dots bring in some more possiblilities. I know I can use underscores instead of dots, but underscores look to much like hyphens. Thanks in regard. 

As a designer, I incorporate multiple design systems into a single file, and some of these design systems may share the same type styles (e.g., font name, size, etc.). When scrolling, I prefer to keep a sticky header at the top instead of a scrollable one. It’s confusing that I’m on which design system. then i have to scroll to the top to see on what design system I’m in.